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Ruth spent most of her life in the South Precinct of Braintree and after it became the town of Randolph, Massachusetts. She, her husband Nathaniel Holbrook and several of their children moved to Providence, Rhode Island. It didn't suit them enough to stay, and one of them, a son Abel, died there, so they returned to Randolph.
     Ruth inherited a share in her mother's dower. Elizabeth (Vinton) (Niles) Man was given part of her first husban's real estate. She died in 1817, and Nathaniel and Ruth sold it to their son Joel in 1819.1

children of Ruth Man and Nathaniel Holbrook:2

i. Nathaniel, b. 8 January 1780
ii. Benjamin, b. 19 October 1781
iii. Ruth, b. 30 April 1783
iv. Mary/Polly, b. 30 December 1784
v. Esther, b. 4 September 1786
vi. Abel, b. 5 April 1788
vii. Elizabeth, b. 7 January 1791
viii. Lydia, b. 5 April 1792
ix. Joel, b. 14 November 1793

vital records sources: Her birth date comes from an unpublished manuscript on the Holbrook family by Albert Holbrook (Ruth's great grandson), Rhode Island Historical Society. Images from this are at the Rhode Island genweb site, the pertinent page here: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/holbrook07.jpg. She was baptized on 14 March 1756 at the Braintree South Precinct (now Randolph) church ("Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," ancestry.com database online (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Randolph, "Church Records, with Births, Marriages and Deaths," image 381). Her marriage intentions are recorded on 14 August 1779 in Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793 (Randolph, MA: 1886), 882.

1. Norfolk Co,, MA, deed 61:73.
2. Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793 (Randolph, MA: 1886), 846, Nathaniel (unnamed son) through Esther. Elizabeth, Lydia and Joel are in an unpublished manuscript on the Holbrook family by Albert Holbrook (Ruth's great grandson), Rhode Island Historical Society. Images from this are at the Rhode Island genweb site, the pertinent pages here: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/holbrook07.jpg and the following page.